diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 4e4d78172..239d54204 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Deserialization is similar.  First we parse a stream into Python native datatype
     stream = BytesIO(content)
     data = JSONParser().parse(stream)
 
-...then we restore those native datatypes into to a fully populated object instance.
+...then we restore those native datatypes into a fully populated object instance.
 
     serializer = SnippetSerializer(data=data)
     serializer.is_valid()